Two former IT employees at the Walt Disney Park in Orlando, Florida are taking their former employer to court for having replaced them with young Indian workers residing in the United States working on H1B visas. The two former employees are calling their replacement illegal since the H1B visa is intended to bring in foreign workers when there is no qualified U.S. worker available. The lawyer for the complainants who were laid off in 2014 fully intends to modify the complaint into a ‘class action’ because in fact all 250 professionals in the Walt Disney IT team in Orlando were laid off.
The two ex-Disney workers are denouncing the ‘illegality’ of the procedure Disney used to lay them off. Disney relied on two expert outsourcing companies, HCL and Cognizant, who had young recruits relocate to the U.S. on H1B working visas. These highly prized visas come attached with a condition. Congress wanted any foreigners admitted into the U.S. to hold “special qualifications” that U.S. workers did not hold. The visas were in no sense meant to impact ‘the working conditions of American emp
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